View of the C. H. Nichols House located at 212 East 2nd Street, Trinidad, Colo. Designed by I.H. Rapp and W. M. Rapp in 1904 for C. H. Nichols, a businessman and city mayor, the residence is a substantial two-and-a-half-story dwelling with a steeply pitched off-center cross-gable with flared eaves and red brick chimneys at each end of the east-west gable. The first and second stories are of rock-faced sandstone with raised blackened mortar joints. The shingled upper story projects outward above the second story.